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Thursday TigerBlog - And The Questions Are
August 06, 2026 | Tiger Blog
And now there are two weeks until the first Princeton Athletic event of the 2026-27 academic year.
Is that correct? Two weeks? Today is Aug. 6. The first event is women's soccer against Loyola on Aug. 20. Yup. The math checks out.
The first group of Tigers are back on campus. This group will be followed quickly by the rest of the fall teams.
Among yesterday's news was the announcement of the Princeton women's basketball schedule for the coming season, which begins Nov. 2. Is that really fewer than three months away? Again, the math checks out.
Princeton will open its season at home against Belmont in what will be the first game as Tiger head coach Lauren Gosselin. The entire schedule is HERE; TigerBlog will have more about this tomorrow.
Meanwhile, TigerBlog thanks everyone who seemed to enjoy Princeton Athletics Jeopardy yesterday. TB can tell you that it took him way longer to compile the clues than it would have to write a regular entry.
He actually had a handful of other categories in mind before settling on the ones he used. Also, like his attempts at Princeton Athletics Connections, it's hard to find the sweet spot between too easy and impossible.
Anyway, he's definitely going to try this again. Hey, there needs to be a Double Jeopardy round and then a Final Jeopardy clue as well.
As promised, here are the answers questions:
GARY WALTERS
$200 - Gary Walters was the starting point guard on Princeton's NCAA Final Four men's basketball team is this year.
What is 1965?
$400 - Gary was the head men's basketball coach at three different colleges — Union, Providence and this Ivy League school.
What is Dartmouth?
$600 - Gary spent 20 years as the Director of Athletics at Princeton for the second-longest tenure in the position behind only this man.
Who is Ken Fairman?
$800 - Gary appeared on the Feb. 27, 1967, cover of Sports Illustrated along with this Princeton teammate.
Who is Chris Thomforde?
$1,000 - A graduate of Reading High School, Gary had this man as his high school government teacher.
Who is Pete Carril?
NUMBERS
$200 - He wore No. 66 for the 2026 NCAA men's lacrosse championship team. That was 66 higher than his father wore as a two-time Ivy men's basketball Player of the Year.
Who is Cooper Mueller?
$400 - Sarah Lessig is No. 4 on the softball team and No. 8 for this other Princeton team.
What is basketball?
$600 - Princeton has retired this number, worn by Bill Bradley and Dick Kazmaier, across all of its sports.
What is No. 42?
$800 - The leading scorers on both the Princeton women's and men's basketball teams in 2025-26 wore uniforms that ended with this number.
What is 3 (Madison St. Rose wore 23; Jackson Hicke wore 33)?
$1,000 - She wore No. 15 for the 2012 NCAA field hockey championship team.
Who is Kat Sharkey?
FICTIONAL TIGERS
$200 - Fred Flintstone was the star quarterback at this school for the big game against "Shale."
What is Prince-Stone?
$400 - The World War II movie "The Caine Mutiny" featured a character named Willie Keith, who played this sport at Princeton.
What is football?
$600 - Former Princeton football player Joe Cable was a Lt. in the United States Navy in World War II in this musical.
What is South Pacific?
$800 - Sam Wainwright, the lead character in the novel "With You," was a classmate of this current Princeton head coach.
Who is Bob Surace?
$1,000 - F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Allenby" was based on Princeton's Hobey Baker in this novel.
What is This Side of Paradise?
BROKEN RECORDS
$200 - Keith Elias is Princeton's career rushing leader with 4,208 yards, or 1,099 more than this player, who previously held the record.
Who is Judd Garrett?
$400 - Kathy Issel set the Princeton women's hockey record for points in a career with 218 before graduating in 1995. The previous record was 216, set by this player four years earlier.
Who is Mollie Marcoux Samaan?
$600 - Bella Alarie holds the Princeton record for career points in women's basketball with 1,703. The record she broke stood for 30 years and was held by this player.
Who is Sandi Bittler?
$800 - Tyler Lussi's 53 goals are the record for Princeton soccer, men or women, and six better than this player whose record she broke.
Who is Esmeralda Negron?
$1,000 - Crista Samaras held the women's lacrosse team's record for career goals from 1999 until 2017. Since then, her record has been broken three times, by Olivia Hompe, Kyla Sears and this current holder of the record.
Who is McKenzie Blake?
WORKING OT
$200 - His three-pointer with less than a minute to go in overtime gave Princeton the lead for good in the 1996 Ivy League playoff game at Lehigh.
Who is Sydney Johnson?
$400 - She is the most recent Princeton field hockey player to score an OT goal, which she did against Rutgers last season.
Who is Ella Cashman?
$600 - Princeton has had five players score an overtime goal in the championship game of an NCAA lacrosse tournament — four men and this woman.
Who is Theresa Sherry (the four men were Andy Moe, Kevin Lowe, Jesse Hubbard and B.J. Prager)?
$800 - Running back Rob Toresco pitched the ball to quarterback Jeff Terrell on a fourth-and-1 in overtime in Princeton's 31-30 win over this opponent en route to the 2006 Ivy League title.
Who is Penn?
$1,000 - Princeton has won two ECAC men's hockey championship games in overtime, with goals from Syl Apps in 1998 and this player in 2018. Hint — this was a max effort goal.
Who is Max Becker?
TODAY I AM A DOCTOR
$200 - Deciding to see this Princeton men's basketball alum turned surgeon should be a layup — he made the most famous one in Tiger history.
Who is Gabe Lewullis?
$400 - Nicole Harrison is an eye surgeon and still the holder of the Princeton women's track and field record in this event.
What is the 110-meter hurdles?
$600 - He graduated as Princeton's career leader in men's lacrosse goals; now he is a renowned surgeon at Johns Hopkins — and seventh all-time in goals scored with the men's lacrosse team.
Who is Justin Tortolani?
$800 - Orthopedic surgeon Ilvy Friebe was a two-time first-team All-American in this sport.
What is field hockey?
$1,000 - This orthodontist has an official bio that reads: As a graduating senior at Princeton University, he received the Pyne Prize, Princeton's highest academic and leadership honor. He was an All-American placekicker, the Burger King Division 1-AA Scholar Athlete of the Year and the recipient of a National Football Foundation and College Football Hall of Fame post-graduate scholarship.
Who is Alex Sierk?
